Turn off dynamics during playback?
Is there a simple way to turn off dynamics completely during playback?
Here's why. I have meticulously copied into MS some sheet music that has p, pp, f, ff, etc. I have found that pp makes the music barely audible. I see that others have found this, but I don't want to adjust it, I just want to turn it off. One piece has ppp and pppp, which are extremely quiet! I had to go through and replace the logical dynamics p, pp, etc., by a text "p", "pp", etc. I will have to switch to this method exclusively unless I can turn dynamics off for playback.
I use MuseScore mainly for playing along with. Eg, with a violin duet, I mute one of the voices during playback, and play that voice on my violin. It's quite enjoyable. For my purposes it's best if the playback is a predictable solid sound level.
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If I'm not mistaken the dynamics are not copied.
So you could copy the song into a new score (or select all similar elements and delete), with a new name, and it is playing with a constant volume?
In reply to A shadow score? by Shoichi
Yes, you're right that I could make a shadow score (and you're right that the dynamics are not copied! -- I tried it). But dealing with two copies is clumsy, especially during the laborious transcribing process, where I need to play it a lot. Also, I am practicing against MS in order to play eventually with a human -- so I want to see the dynamics and get to know them, even though I don't want to hear them right now.
Do you see any down side to using text "p", etc., instead of dynamics p? My guess is that they are anchored to a point in the stave in the same way, and that the only difference is that they don't have any effect on volume. One has to choose the font, but after the first couple, one just cuts and pastes.
In reply to Hmm... by MikeN
Instead of replacing them with text, you could right click them -> MIDI properties -> and change the velocity. Unfortunately you will have to do this for each dynamic in the score.
In reply to Instead of replacing them by [DELETED] 5
Guess I'll do the text. Thanks, guys.